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Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.

• Centering elements on the Duo is tricky. Looking at the image on the left, I was convinced that things weren’t aligned vertically. But after I added xScope’s guides (on the right), everything is correct. The control margin on the right tricks the eye and I don’t know if I can, or should, do anything about that. You’ll probably want this in your Duo toolbox:

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Standards editor known as Hixie; edited the HTML and WHATWG living standards for many years and worked on Flutter at Google.

• usable-git — A bunch of shell scripts that make using git bearable

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Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.

• On Golden Gate, you can chat to the built-in foundation model directly with `fm chat`. You can also do things like pipeline it into scripts. E.g., in the second screenshot here it's reading and summarizing a @sixcolors article. The model's context window is quite small, so I had to write a script that chunked the text, so it's sort of serially summarized. Still, it’s nice to have fully-local access to this model in this way.

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Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.

• Urgent: News coverage for companies hiding wealth

  US citizens: The corrupter's henchmen have facilitated the hiding of wealth by US companies, by nullifying the rule requiring to tell the government who owns them. Call on news media to cover this.

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Writer of the 25iq blog, where he distils "a dozen things I've learned" from investors, founders and thinkers. Author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs.

• 4) frontier model training cost alone ~ = revenue and open source is barking at closed source heels. Requiring that all models be centralized with safety monitors etc, kills the open source business model.
  Quoting@venturetwinsStruggling understand why the leader of a major AI lab would go on a press tour and say their technology has a meaningful chance of killing us all. I've read thousands of comments on these interviews from everyday Americans. The sentiment overwhelmingly falls into three categories: 1) Why are you t…

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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

• New week new demo! Today I want to showcase the CLI to control the @superlogical multiplexer. The CLI is an extremely powerful tool for automation and hooking into other tools like editors, agentic coding tools, and more. And, it's super fun! Everything you can do in the GUI, you can do via the CLI. Actually, you can do more in the CLI. You can create sessions, run commands, make splits, move things around, change focus, simulate any input device (key/mouse/etc.), wait on scripts, and more. There are a couple unique parts of Rex I'm showing off here too: our streaming event system that any cl…

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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

• docker_programming_station — Simple scripts for programmers who want to work within Docker

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Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.

• I am begging you to stop using AI to write your video scripts. Shortform content is becoming unwatchable and that's not even the crazy part

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Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.

• Automic Vault means your CLI tools don’t perform sensitive actions without your approval. This applies to agents and supply chain attacks both. We patch tools at the *packaging layer*. Blessed Scripts allow you to make small, vetted scripts that escalate tool capabilities. Reentrant Blessed Scripts are a scripting pattern that allow you to “weave” in agent capabilities. Interleaving deterministic work with escalated Tool capabilities and secrets with applied intelligence. Perfect for automations.
  Quoting@AutomicVaultWe have documented the concept of `Reentrant Blessed Scripts` that describe our suggested mechanism of giving Agent Automations a set of escalated capabilities and secrets. Have the automation execute a Blessed Script with Automic Vault front-matter for the capabilities and…

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Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.

• Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. Summer stretches on here and I've got a weekend full of outdoor activities, many of them requiring outfits. I'm spending this afternoon in a frenzy of visible mending and I'd love to not also feel compelled to reply to your last-minute email. We'll all sweatily muddle forward. Image credit: Provincial Archives of Alberta, on Flickr Commons

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Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.

• Waymo And Uber Support Bad, Incumbent-Protecting Laws In DC And NJ

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• Tool Box in a Milk Crate and Bonus

  As I wrote in the review of the Systematic Tools Knipex Multitool Sheath 2.0, Todd Parker’s obsessive kit overviews on his Youtube page inspired me to not just make a kit of my one, but make the toolbox too. This, in tu…

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• pytheory-playground — Interactive music theory toolbox powered by pytheory

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

• Fireside chat at Sequoia Ascent 2026 from a ~week ago. Some highlights: The first theme I tried to push on is that LLMs are about a lot more than just speeding up what existed before (e.g. coding). Three examples of new horizons: 1. menugen: an app that can be fully engulfed by LLMs, with no classical code needed: input an image, output an image and an LLM can natively do the thing. 2. install .md skills instead of install .sh scripts. Why create a complex Software 1.0 bash script for e.g. installing a piece of software if you can write the installation out in words and say "just show this to…
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Standards editor known as Hixie; edited the HTML and WHATWG living standards for many years and worked on Flutter at Google.

• homunculi — Scripts generated or maintained by AI, typically for interacting with AI tools

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• Judgment and creativity are all you need.

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

• NewsletterNew Blog Post: Some Silly Z3 Scripts I Wrote

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• BlogSome Silly Z3 Scripts I Wrote

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FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.

• FreeBSD AMI ID pages

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Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

• forge-recipes — Scripts to use on Forge provisioned servers.

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Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.

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Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.

• kubernetes-the-hard-way — Bootstrap Kubernetes the hard way. No scripts.

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• wikiplot — python scripts for extracting plot summaries from wikipedia

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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.

• c-ares-for-qnx — build scripts for c-ares on QNX

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French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.

• I wrote a post about a type of hack that I had never seen before. Tomas Robert, a YouTuber with decent metrics (162k subscribers/650k total views) turned out to be an AI-generated person designed to trick viewers into executing malicious scripts and stealing cryptos

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Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.

• New NHTSA high-speed/pedesterian AEB Rule

  NHTSA has a new rule out requiring high-capability Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) in new vehicles from 2029. Some key points from an initial read-through of the new NHTSA AEB Rule document are below. NHTSA points out…

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

• autohotkey-scripts — Some of my AutoHotKey scripts

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• cmu-studio-workshop — Just some simple/hacky scraping scripts. 🎶This is how we do it🎶

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Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.

• misc-haskell — Various Haskell scripts, ideas, and sketches from over the years

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• greasemonkey-multi-script-compiler — Compiles multiple Greasemonkey user scripts into a standalone Firefox extension, based heavily on Anthony Lieuallen's (single) script compiler.

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